ARTIST: That Ghost
TITLE: Young Fridays
LABEL: Twosyllable
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 204kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 29m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00
RIP DATE: 2008-11-16
Track List
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1. When There's No One Else To 3:02
Sing To You Sing To Yourself
2. Open Windows 2:13
3. I Crossed Out The Options 2:30
4. A Song About A Bird I Know 2:43
5. Bedside 2:04
6. Never Have Fun 2:27
7. Top Shelf 2:47
8. I Can't Help It And I Can't 2:38
Stop It
9. Far Trail And The Old Porch 3:52
10. Friends In Quotations 2:39
11. Going Out When It's Warm At 2:25
Night
Release Notes:
Imagine a room decorated with only the essentials: five guitars (two electric, three acoustic), various unidentified instruments, and a recording box, surrounded by a maze of tangled cords. Welcome to the studio of That Ghost, eighteen-year-old Ryan Schmale of Sonoma County, California. The lo-fi quality of his songs is intriguing. The arrangements are distorted, unexpected. Listen to a few songs and one might think it is the sound of three or four musicians. This is not the case. What the listener hears is one extremely passionate person who has something to say. By the age of seventeen, That Ghost had already self-released three full-length CDs.
'Young Fridays' is That Ghost's first full-length on twosyllable records. The songs, born out of the lazy days of summer, burrow themselves in your head in a way only perfect pop songs can.
Operating in the footsteps of lo-fi bedroom artists before him, That Ghost will undoubtedly garner comparisons to Elliot Smith, Ben Gibbard, Robert Pollard, Ariel Pink, and current indie lo-fi faves. From the opening door at the top of the album, to the last strum of an acoustic guitar, this record is bound to find its way into collectors' and teenie-boppers' hands alike.